Swiped Horizon
photo on recycled acrylic, 120 x 80 cm
In this photo series, Nuyten shows the compositions that fingertips unconsciously create on the screens of smartphones. Our relation to the world is to a large extent determined by the devices on which we are swiping, scrolling and tapping all day. As Nuyten shows, these gestures not only activate digital processes but also leave tangible traces in analogue reality. These landscapes of fingerprints and dynamic curves have been photographed on the coast of the North Sea and the Aegean Sea, and in the Flevopark in Amsterdam, among others. A site-specific version of Swiped Horizon was made in a government building in The Hague, commissioned by the Ministry of the Interior. On a glass partition, transparent photo prints show blow-ups of the elegant traces that fingers leave on screens.
Courtesy: Upstream Gallery Amsterdam, Thomas Nuijten
Photo: Gert-Jan van Rooij
NN Kunstcollectie, Government of the Netherlands, Normec Collection, private collections, a.o.
